Swallow-tailed Kite The end of May brought so many unexpected birds that some of the rarest and most spectacular of them drew barely a mention in last week’s edition. Luckily for us, some of them stuck around, which gives me a chance to focus on the invasion of the kites, and the overall southern flavor of the birds on the Upper Cape this week. From Sandwich to Eastham, I’ve been getting and seeing a lot of reports of one of the most impressive of the vagrant birds we see here – the Swallow-tailed Kite. At least one seemed to hang around East Falmouth for a week, but I suspect a few are about. They are one of the “unmistakables” – that’s a word you see in field guides a lot, but in my experience, nothing is truly that. Swallow-tailed Kites come close.